+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | FOOTNOTES: | | | | [1] I might here enlarge on the general importance of the study of | | epidemics; but this has been so fully set forth in the author’s | | Address to the Physicians of Germany, which immediately follows, as | | well as in the Preface to the Sweating Sickness, at p. 177, that | | any further observations on this subject would be superfluous on my | | part. | | | | [2] στε καὶ ἐλέχθη ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ὡς οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι φάρμακα | | ἐσβεβλήκοιεν ἐς τὰ φρέατα. _Thucyd. Hist._ B. ii. 49. “The disease | | was attributed by the people to poison, and nothing apparently | | could be more authentic than the reports that were spread of | | miscreants taken in the act of putting poisonous drugs into the | | food and drink of the common people.” Observations on the Cholera | | in St. Petersburg, p. 9. by G. W. Lefevre, M.D. 8vo. 1831. | | | | [3] Only two copies are known to exist, one in the British Museum, | | and one in the library of the College of Physicians. | | | | [4] La Mortalega Grande. _Matth. de Griffonibus._ _Muratori._ | | Script. rer. Italicar. T. XVIII. p. 167. D. They were called by | | others _Anguinalgia_. _Andr. Gratiol._ Discorso di Peste. Venet. | | 1576. 4to. Swedish: _Diger-döden._ _Loccenii_ Histor. Suecan. L. | | III. p. 104.—Danish: _den sorte Dod._ _Pontan._ Rer. Danicar. | | Histor. L. VIII. p. 476.—Amstelod. 1631, fol. Icelandic: _Svatur | | Daudi._ _Saabye_, Tagebuch in Grönland. Introduction XVIII. | | _Mansa_, de Epidemiis maxime memorabilibus, quæ in Dania grassatæ | | sunt, &c. Part I. p. 12. Havniæ, 1831, 8.—In Westphalia the name of | | _de groete Doet_ was prevalent. _Meibom._ | | | | [5] _Joann. Cantacuzen._ Historiar. L. IV. c. 8. Ed. Paris. p. 730. | | 5. The ex-emperor has indeed copied some passages from Thucydides, | | as _Sprengel_ justly observes, (Appendix to the Geschichte der | | Medicin. Vol. I. H. I. S. 73,) though this was most probably only | | for the sake of rounding a period. This is no detriment to his | | credibility, because his statements accord with the other accounts. | | | | [6] Ἀποστάσεις μεγάλαι. | | |